Benfica drew against the last team in the table and Camacho resigned. They're still in the 2nd place... 14 points(!!!) behind Porto.

Looks like Porto will be celebrating another league table in the coming months then.

I never really liked Camacho anyways.

Yikes. Camacho resigned? Didn't he just bury his father?

Man, it seems like only Porto are doing decently well in the Portuguese league.

Yes. His father died some days ago.

Porto is a bit like Inter. They don't need to run 90min to win a match. They just need to put some pressure in the beginning to Lisandro, Quaresma or Lucho solve the match.

I believe there will be a 20 points gap by the end of Portuguese Liga. If not more.

Scottish League Cup Final this weekend for my other team Rangers.

Hopefully the first piece of silerware of the season is heading to Ibrox and I am also hoping it's the first of 2 or 3.

Welcome, Gila Soul!

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Welcome to the forum Gila Soul.

Shame you support the wrong Glasgow team. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

This post has been edited by kurtsimonw: Mar 11 2008, 04:09 PM

Dundee United-Rangers in the Cup Final. Dundee lead, with 5 minutes remaining an awful back-pass allowed Kris Boyd to steal in and put it past the keeper. Rangers were awful and grabbed an equaliser in a very fortunate way.. They'll surely go on and win it now.

EDIT: Dundee U 2-1 Rangers. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

2nd half of ET being played.

EDIT 2: Great ball in by former Villan Steven Davis. Kris Boyd gets his 2nd of the game, 2-2.. Why was Boyd on the bench to begin with, with a scoring record like that? (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

EDIT: Penalties it is.

Rangers won 3-2 on penalties. Kris Boyd equalised in normal time, in ET then scored the winner from the spot.

This post has been edited by kurtsimonw: Mar 16 2008, 06:43 PM

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Porto won yesterday. Benfica - mediocre as usual - drew in Madeira.

Now the gap is 16 points (!!!). This means Porto only need 5 points to be Champ.

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you'll get all 3 i'm sure, thats if you avoid defeat against celtic.

(Lippi on Beckham)

Yeah, and you're a decent manager. Not a World class manager. The players you've had have won you the trophies, not you. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

One of the best passers, crossers and set-peice takers I've ever seen. As for "His clubs won him trophies, not him", while I agree that not 1 player makes a team, the stats prove he was important.

Beckham's last 5 years at United: 4 league titles, 1 FA Cup, 1 Champions League.
Uniteds' first 5 years without Beckham: 1 league title, 1 FA Cup, 1 league Cup.

It seems they do miss him, afterall. I think his celebrity lifestyle actually took away from how good he actually was as a player. If he didn't have that type of personal life, he'd be much more respected as a player. Congrats on the 100th cap, Becks.

I agree with kurt (I won't make it a habit though.. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) )

The media diss Beckham for nothing. The pundits call him a one-trick pony. I think it was a case of envy from the pundits...they never probably received the adulation he did. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

And as for the media...they built him up, weren't Posh and Becks supposed to be Britain's second royal family?? And then surprise..surprise...they pull him down.

True he had only a right foot, and he couldn't dribble. He could cross, he could shoot decently, and was one of the best free-kick takers in the world. And he had a tremendous work rate, and you could see he put the team in front of him. Sometimes I think players like Giggs, Scholes and Beckham are really underrated. These three were the only reason I liked Man U once upon a time.

As for Lippi's comments. In the last WC if it weren't for Beckham, England would be in the rather embarassing position of having drawn with Ecuador. He dragged them through. I remember in one of those games he was even playing as RB for the team(If he'd come to Milan earlier, we'd have made a great RB out of him).

Oh and why doesn't Mr.Lippi ask Capello what he thinks of Beckham. Oh yeah...Capello's debut season trophy guarantee..if it holds it is because of Mr.David Robert Joesph Beckham OBE. Thank you very much.




Yeesh!

I always did like Jack. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

In my opinion Beckham never was a great player. He is a good footballer that has been solid but not great.


I'm sorry Kurt but that's dumb to say the least...

Madrid's last 3 seasons with Zidane: No titles
Madrid's 1st season without Zidane: La Liga title

I guess Zidane was a crappy player then! You can't compare different eras of a team just by using one player's absence or appearance...

This post has been edited by dst: Mar 27 2008, 09:49 AM

Beckham was a great. No question. A class act of an RM.

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